Railroads versus settlers was a deadly combination. On May 11, 1880, a dispute between settlers and the railroads in central California turns...
The Tragedy of Mussel Slough
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Sooners and Boomers!
The Land Run of 1891 was one of the most remarkable events in Western history. One needs to understand that Oklahoma is an instant land. There are...
Land Ho!
On April 22, 1889, 50,000 land-hungry settlers rushed onto two million acres of Central Oklahoma’s Unassigned Lands. The land rush was the first of...
Water Purification
How did mountain men, cowboys, or settlers going west purify water before drinking? Survival shows today have people boiling it or some sort of...
Dealing with Mosquitos, Ticks, and Chiggers
How did cowboys, Indians, and settlers deal with ticks and chiggers? When I was a kid in northern Arizona every summer, we’d ride the Santa Fe...